Date: Week of

Topic ; Guest Lecturer

Readings (# articles are from Annual Editions)

1/22

Introduction

1/27

Globalization & International Institutions

#3 (The End of Easy Everything)

#15 (Go Glocal)

2/3

Guns, Germs & Steel

http://www.pbs.org/gunsgermssteel/variables/index.html

2/10

Comparative Health Care

2/17

Chinese Medicine (Steve Randoll)

2/19

Sustainability: Food, GMOs  & Natural Resources

Art #2: New Geopolitics of Food

Art #7: Population & Sustainability

Atlantic article on Pakistan's population & water supplies

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-september-12-2013/monsanto---seed-patent-laws

2/26

SCC Global Days: Culture of the World

SC Plaza Bistro (meet in class first)

3/3

Guest Lecture: Will Griffin -- China

“Chinglish” article by Griffin

3/5 & 3/10

Climate Change

#13 (Melting North)

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/2013/0916/Russian-Navy-returns-to-Arctic.-Permanently

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/10/08/alaska-sinks--climate-change-thaws-permafrost/2794255/

EPA article on the impact on US water supplies

2013 Guardian article on Texas' drought

Can more Sulfuring Acid stop climate change? -- Climate Engineering (Colbert interview)

Optional: The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert

3/12

Midterm Exam

3/17 -22

Spring Break

      No School!!   

3/24

Women’s Rights & Human Trafficking

#25 (Women & Work)

http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2013/dec/20/trafficking-victims-forced-crime-let-down-police

3/26

Sex Around the World -- Herbel

Meet in SSB Auditorium

3/31

Alternative Energy

#27 (Seven Myths)

#28 (King Coal)

#30 (Nuclear Energy)

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/25/business/international/to-expand-offshore-power-japan-builds-floating-windmills.html?_r=0

4/7

Terrorism

#38 (Geneva Conventions)

#36 (War in the Fifth Domain)

4/14

Israel & Palestine

http://www.merip.org/primer-palestine-israel-arab-israeli-conflict-new

Abbas’ NATO Proposal (Thomas Friedman)

4/21

Nationalism & Religious Fundamentalism: Syrian conflict

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/03/opinion/does-scotland-want-independence.html?_r=0

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/24/opinion/the-disunited-kingdom.html?_r=0

4/28

Political Economy and Development:

Is there a resource curse?

#17 (Why the World Isn’t Flat)

#22 (Bolivia & it’s Lithium)

#24 (Africa’s Hopeful Economies)

Daily Show Clip: Food versus Cash

5/5

Cuba: Communism in Transition

5/12/2014

Final Exam